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Skidmore News
Volume Thirty-seven SKIDMORE COLLEGE, SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y., OCTOBER 12, 1961 Number Two
NEWS COFFEE
MON. 4-6
REVIEW OF HAMLET
SEE PAGE 5
Four New Staff Members Welcomed to the Library
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Mr. Skipsna, Mrs. Rockwell, Mrs. Foye. Absent: Mrs.Reed, Jr.
Four new members have joined the staff of the Lucy Scribner Library this year in an effort to make the library an even more efficient instrument in the Skidmore students’ “quest for knowledge.”
Mr. Alvin Skipsna, Assistant Librarian in Charge of Technical Services, comes to Skidmore from the New York Public Library, where he had been a cataloguer since 1956. A native of Riga, Latvia, Mr. Skipsna graduated cum laude from the City College of New York with an A.B. degree in 1954, achieving membership in Phi Beta Kappa through excellence in the field of English. Continuing his studies at Columbia University, Mr. Skipsna received an M.S. from the School of Library Science, and was awarded the Grolier Society Prize for Highest Academic Achievement.
Mr. Skipsna regards the library as the “memory of the human race.” He believes that the library is essential to one’s education and that the truly educated person is one who “knows where to find what he wants to know,” rather than one whose brain is merely a storehouse for a mass of facts. Mr. Skipsna hopes to make the library even more operative through its basic tool, the catalogue.
Mrs. Horace B. Reed, Jr., formerly of the clerical staff in the Library, is now Catalogue Librarian. Mrs. Reed received her B.A. from Antioch and her M.A. in Education from the Putney Graduate School of Teacher Education. Two summers ago, she attended Rutgers Graduate School of Library Science. Mrs. Reed is the wife of Mr. Horace Reed, Jr., Chairman of the Education Department at Skidmore.
The new Assistant in the Circulations Department, Mrs. Howard R. Foye, received her degree from Smith College and did graduate work at the Eastman School at the University of Rochester. Mrs. Foye has done substitute teaching in the Saratoga Public Schools and is active in many community affairs and various church groups. She is the mother of six children; the oldest is now a freshman at the University of Rochester.
Mrs. Robert E. Rockwell, Acquisitions Assistant, is the mother of four, one a senior at Skidmore. Also an active participant in community organizations, Mrs. Rockwell is a Registered Nurse and finds library work a new, but interesting field. She is a former member of the Board of Education in the Saratoga School system and a member of various P.T.A. groups.
Rev. Dr. Kennedy To Talk at Chapel
The Reverend Dr. Edwin O. Kennedy, Secretary and Professor of Practical Theology at Union Theological Seminary, will speak Thursday, Oct. 19, at 12:30 p.m. in College Hall. Reverend Kennedy’s topic will be “Mixing Religion with Brains.”
Reverend Kennedy was ordained to the Christian Ministry of the Presbyterian Church in 1924. Since that time he has held ministerial positions in West Orange, N.J., Madison, Wis. and Englewood, N.J. In 1952 he became affiliated with Union Theological Seminary in New York, and in 1959 with the Auburn Theological Seminary.
Reverend Kennedy was President of the Alumni Association of Union Theological Seminary in 1947 and 1948. He also served on the Board of Directors from 1949 - 1952. Included in his many civic service activities are participation in the Orange Valley Settlement House in Orange, N.J.; the Executive Committee of the Madison Community
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Rev. Edwin Kennedy
Dr. P. Ricoeur Author; Lecturer To Open Series
Dr. Paul Ricoeur, distinguished philosopher, author, professor of Metaphysics at the Sorbonne and Danforth Visiting Lecturer, will open this year’s College Lecture Series on Tuesday, Oct. 17, at 7:30 p.m., in College Hall. His topic will be “The Meaning of Tragedy.” In two informal meetings with students and faculty, Dr. Ricoeur will discuss two related philosophical topics, “The Problem of Symbolism” and “Philosophy and the Origin of Evil.”
Dr. Ricoeur was born in Valance, France. He attended the Lycee at Rennes and received his baccalaureat there in 1928. His licensees-lettres was earned from the University of Rennes in 1932, and his aggregation de philosophie from the University of Paris in 1935. He was made a Docteur de l’Universite in 1950, and in 1960 was awarded the degree of Docteur honoris causa by the University of Basel, Switzerland.
From the time of his graduation in 1935 until he entered the French Army in 1939, Dr. Ricoeur was a professor at the Lycees of Colmar and Lorient. He was captured when France fell in 1940 and remained a prisoner of war until 1945. For the next three years Dr. Ricoeur was a professor of philosophy at the College Cevenol, an international college in the Cervennes Mountains of Southeastern France. He then became professor of the history of philosophy at the University of Strasbourg, where he remained until 1957 when he assumed his present post at the Sorbonne.
Dr. Ricoeur held a visiting professorship at Haverford College in 1955-6, at McGill University in 1957, at Union Theological Seminary in New York where he taught the philosophy of religion in 1958 and the University of Montreal in 1959.
Among his publications are several books including the two-volume work, A Philosophy of the Will. Some of his other major works are Ideas for Phenomenology and Karl Jaspers and the Philosophy of Existence.
News Coffee
The Skidmore News, a privately published paper for public perusal, proudly presents its first Coffee, on Monday, Oct. 16 at 4:00 p.m. in the spacious drawing room of the Rec Center.
All prospective chain-smokers, pencil-sharpeners, brain-scratchers and Pulitzer Prize Winners are forewarned (if not forearmed) to avail themselves of this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to “meet the press.”
No matter if you are mathematically-minded, or business bound, or editorially inclined—we urge, we demand, we cajole, we invite you to come, to see and to join!
Janice C. Buys Appointed Director of Public Relations
Miss Janice C. Buys has been appointed the new Director of Public Relations and Development for Skidmore College. A graduate of Randolph-Macon Women’s College, Miss Buys was Director of Publicity for her alma mater from 1948 to 1952.
From 1952 to 1960, she served as a Public Relations Associate at Douglass College, and last year she worked with the Educational Testing Service in Princeton, N.J. At present, Miss Buys holds the position of Secretary-Treasurer of the Middle Atlantic District of American College Public Relations Association.
As Public Relations Director at Skidmore, Miss Buys pointed out that she finds it difficult to fully enumerate all of her duties as she is never certain what her title will call on her to do. She remembers one experience she encountered at Randolph-Macon when as Director of Publicity she had to straighten out an announcement that Eleanor Roosevelt would be the new college president. While the A.P. news wires were being held open for an official announcement by the school, Miss Buys traced the rumor to a college newspaper’s story, which had printed the announcement in an April Fool issue.
In connection with the development segment of her title, Miss Buys, in addition to working on such college publications as the catalogue, brochures, special news releases and alumnae reports, will aid in campaigns similar to those of last year which sought to raise money for new changes and developments on the college campus. Commenting on her position, Miss Buys said that she felt, “very much at home with the people at Skidmore” and found the college similar to her own alma mater in many aspects, especially in its attitude towards encouraging international student exchange.
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Miss Janice C. Buys
Irwin, Stimmel Give Concert
Mr. Hoyt L. Irwin, Chairman of the Music Department, and The Reverend Mr. Howard Stimmel, Minister of the First Methodist Church in Saratoga, will present a program of piano duets on Monday, Oct. 16, at 7:30 p.m. in College Hall.
The concert will be the first in the Half Hour of Music Series performed by members of the music faculty and by occasional performers from the Saratoga vicinity. Mr. Irwin and Reverend Stimmel will play four chorale preludes from The Little Organ Book by J. S. Bach, including “Christ Lay in the Bonds of Death,” “In Sweet Jubilation,” “Jesus, My Joy,” and “Christ Is Risen.” Mozart’s “Double Concerto in E flat” and “Waltzes, Opus 39” by Brahms will constitute the remainder of the program. This is the third concert given by Reverend Stimmel and Mr. Irwin.
Reverend Stimmel has had considerable experience in the field of music. He studied at the Dakota Conservatory of Music in Fargo, N. D. and received his A.B. in music from Jamestown College in Jamestown, N. D., where he specialized in organ music. While in the Saratoga area, Reverend Stimmel has continued his interest in music and has given numerous organ recitals.
Before obtaining his A.B. degree in music from Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa, Mr. Irwin worked for three years with touring companies that brought light opera to small towns. After graduation, he attended Columbia University where he received his M.A. de-
(Continued on page six)
President Wilson Recently Elected Comm. Chairman
President Val H. Wilson was recently elected Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Empire State Foundation of Independent Liberal Arts Colleges. Formerly the Executive Committee’s Secretary, President Wilson now heads the foundation which enlists financial aid to ensure the continuance of independently endowed liberal arts colleges.
Founded in 1952, the Empire State Foundation sets as its goal the advancement and strengthening of liberal arts education through the financial support of business, industry, foundations, estates and the general public. The accomplishment of this goal is brought about through the integrated action of the presidents of the member colleges, which include Bard, Barnard, Colgate, Elmira, Hamilton, Russell Sage, Union and Vassar among other private colleges of New York State. The financial support obtained by the Empire State Foundation makes possible new equipment (especially for science departments), experimental programs and new library acquisitions.

Skidmore News
Volume Thirty-seven SKIDMORE COLLEGE, SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y., OCTOBER 12, 1961 Number Two
NEWS COFFEE
MON. 4-6
REVIEW OF HAMLET
SEE PAGE 5
Four New Staff Members Welcomed to the Library
[photograph]
Mr. Skipsna, Mrs. Rockwell, Mrs. Foye. Absent: Mrs.Reed, Jr.
Four new members have joined the staff of the Lucy Scribner Library this year in an effort to make the library an even more efficient instrument in the Skidmore students’ “quest for knowledge.”
Mr. Alvin Skipsna, Assistant Librarian in Charge of Technical Services, comes to Skidmore from the New York Public Library, where he had been a cataloguer since 1956. A native of Riga, Latvia, Mr. Skipsna graduated cum laude from the City College of New York with an A.B. degree in 1954, achieving membership in Phi Beta Kappa through excellence in the field of English. Continuing his studies at Columbia University, Mr. Skipsna received an M.S. from the School of Library Science, and was awarded the Grolier Society Prize for Highest Academic Achievement.
Mr. Skipsna regards the library as the “memory of the human race.” He believes that the library is essential to one’s education and that the truly educated person is one who “knows where to find what he wants to know,” rather than one whose brain is merely a storehouse for a mass of facts. Mr. Skipsna hopes to make the library even more operative through its basic tool, the catalogue.
Mrs. Horace B. Reed, Jr., formerly of the clerical staff in the Library, is now Catalogue Librarian. Mrs. Reed received her B.A. from Antioch and her M.A. in Education from the Putney Graduate School of Teacher Education. Two summers ago, she attended Rutgers Graduate School of Library Science. Mrs. Reed is the wife of Mr. Horace Reed, Jr., Chairman of the Education Department at Skidmore.
The new Assistant in the Circulations Department, Mrs. Howard R. Foye, received her degree from Smith College and did graduate work at the Eastman School at the University of Rochester. Mrs. Foye has done substitute teaching in the Saratoga Public Schools and is active in many community affairs and various church groups. She is the mother of six children; the oldest is now a freshman at the University of Rochester.
Mrs. Robert E. Rockwell, Acquisitions Assistant, is the mother of four, one a senior at Skidmore. Also an active participant in community organizations, Mrs. Rockwell is a Registered Nurse and finds library work a new, but interesting field. She is a former member of the Board of Education in the Saratoga School system and a member of various P.T.A. groups.
Rev. Dr. Kennedy To Talk at Chapel
The Reverend Dr. Edwin O. Kennedy, Secretary and Professor of Practical Theology at Union Theological Seminary, will speak Thursday, Oct. 19, at 12:30 p.m. in College Hall. Reverend Kennedy’s topic will be “Mixing Religion with Brains.”
Reverend Kennedy was ordained to the Christian Ministry of the Presbyterian Church in 1924. Since that time he has held ministerial positions in West Orange, N.J., Madison, Wis. and Englewood, N.J. In 1952 he became affiliated with Union Theological Seminary in New York, and in 1959 with the Auburn Theological Seminary.
Reverend Kennedy was President of the Alumni Association of Union Theological Seminary in 1947 and 1948. He also served on the Board of Directors from 1949 - 1952. Included in his many civic service activities are participation in the Orange Valley Settlement House in Orange, N.J.; the Executive Committee of the Madison Community
(Continued on page six)
[photograph]
Rev. Edwin Kennedy
Dr. P. Ricoeur Author; Lecturer To Open Series
Dr. Paul Ricoeur, distinguished philosopher, author, professor of Metaphysics at the Sorbonne and Danforth Visiting Lecturer, will open this year’s College Lecture Series on Tuesday, Oct. 17, at 7:30 p.m., in College Hall. His topic will be “The Meaning of Tragedy.” In two informal meetings with students and faculty, Dr. Ricoeur will discuss two related philosophical topics, “The Problem of Symbolism” and “Philosophy and the Origin of Evil.”
Dr. Ricoeur was born in Valance, France. He attended the Lycee at Rennes and received his baccalaureat there in 1928. His licensees-lettres was earned from the University of Rennes in 1932, and his aggregation de philosophie from the University of Paris in 1935. He was made a Docteur de l’Universite in 1950, and in 1960 was awarded the degree of Docteur honoris causa by the University of Basel, Switzerland.
From the time of his graduation in 1935 until he entered the French Army in 1939, Dr. Ricoeur was a professor at the Lycees of Colmar and Lorient. He was captured when France fell in 1940 and remained a prisoner of war until 1945. For the next three years Dr. Ricoeur was a professor of philosophy at the College Cevenol, an international college in the Cervennes Mountains of Southeastern France. He then became professor of the history of philosophy at the University of Strasbourg, where he remained until 1957 when he assumed his present post at the Sorbonne.
Dr. Ricoeur held a visiting professorship at Haverford College in 1955-6, at McGill University in 1957, at Union Theological Seminary in New York where he taught the philosophy of religion in 1958 and the University of Montreal in 1959.
Among his publications are several books including the two-volume work, A Philosophy of the Will. Some of his other major works are Ideas for Phenomenology and Karl Jaspers and the Philosophy of Existence.
News Coffee
The Skidmore News, a privately published paper for public perusal, proudly presents its first Coffee, on Monday, Oct. 16 at 4:00 p.m. in the spacious drawing room of the Rec Center.
All prospective chain-smokers, pencil-sharpeners, brain-scratchers and Pulitzer Prize Winners are forewarned (if not forearmed) to avail themselves of this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to “meet the press.”
No matter if you are mathematically-minded, or business bound, or editorially inclined—we urge, we demand, we cajole, we invite you to come, to see and to join!
Janice C. Buys Appointed Director of Public Relations
Miss Janice C. Buys has been appointed the new Director of Public Relations and Development for Skidmore College. A graduate of Randolph-Macon Women’s College, Miss Buys was Director of Publicity for her alma mater from 1948 to 1952.
From 1952 to 1960, she served as a Public Relations Associate at Douglass College, and last year she worked with the Educational Testing Service in Princeton, N.J. At present, Miss Buys holds the position of Secretary-Treasurer of the Middle Atlantic District of American College Public Relations Association.
As Public Relations Director at Skidmore, Miss Buys pointed out that she finds it difficult to fully enumerate all of her duties as she is never certain what her title will call on her to do. She remembers one experience she encountered at Randolph-Macon when as Director of Publicity she had to straighten out an announcement that Eleanor Roosevelt would be the new college president. While the A.P. news wires were being held open for an official announcement by the school, Miss Buys traced the rumor to a college newspaper’s story, which had printed the announcement in an April Fool issue.
In connection with the development segment of her title, Miss Buys, in addition to working on such college publications as the catalogue, brochures, special news releases and alumnae reports, will aid in campaigns similar to those of last year which sought to raise money for new changes and developments on the college campus. Commenting on her position, Miss Buys said that she felt, “very much at home with the people at Skidmore” and found the college similar to her own alma mater in many aspects, especially in its attitude towards encouraging international student exchange.
[photograph]
Miss Janice C. Buys
Irwin, Stimmel Give Concert
Mr. Hoyt L. Irwin, Chairman of the Music Department, and The Reverend Mr. Howard Stimmel, Minister of the First Methodist Church in Saratoga, will present a program of piano duets on Monday, Oct. 16, at 7:30 p.m. in College Hall.
The concert will be the first in the Half Hour of Music Series performed by members of the music faculty and by occasional performers from the Saratoga vicinity. Mr. Irwin and Reverend Stimmel will play four chorale preludes from The Little Organ Book by J. S. Bach, including “Christ Lay in the Bonds of Death,” “In Sweet Jubilation,” “Jesus, My Joy,” and “Christ Is Risen.” Mozart’s “Double Concerto in E flat” and “Waltzes, Opus 39” by Brahms will constitute the remainder of the program. This is the third concert given by Reverend Stimmel and Mr. Irwin.
Reverend Stimmel has had considerable experience in the field of music. He studied at the Dakota Conservatory of Music in Fargo, N. D. and received his A.B. in music from Jamestown College in Jamestown, N. D., where he specialized in organ music. While in the Saratoga area, Reverend Stimmel has continued his interest in music and has given numerous organ recitals.
Before obtaining his A.B. degree in music from Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa, Mr. Irwin worked for three years with touring companies that brought light opera to small towns. After graduation, he attended Columbia University where he received his M.A. de-
(Continued on page six)
President Wilson Recently Elected Comm. Chairman
President Val H. Wilson was recently elected Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Empire State Foundation of Independent Liberal Arts Colleges. Formerly the Executive Committee’s Secretary, President Wilson now heads the foundation which enlists financial aid to ensure the continuance of independently endowed liberal arts colleges.
Founded in 1952, the Empire State Foundation sets as its goal the advancement and strengthening of liberal arts education through the financial support of business, industry, foundations, estates and the general public. The accomplishment of this goal is brought about through the integrated action of the presidents of the member colleges, which include Bard, Barnard, Colgate, Elmira, Hamilton, Russell Sage, Union and Vassar among other private colleges of New York State. The financial support obtained by the Empire State Foundation makes possible new equipment (especially for science departments), experimental programs and new library acquisitions.